Trudy Lieberman is the former director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union, is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and a contributor to The Nation. She began her career as a consumer writer at the Detroit Free Press. Lieberman has authored five books including Slanting the Story: the Forces That Shape the News (2000) and Consumer Reports Guide to Health Services for Seniors (2000), named one of the year’s best consumer health books by Library Journal.

She has taught media ethics in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, and was a Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on media ethics and the ethics of health care delivery. She has won numerous honors, including two National Magazine Awards, ten National Press Club Awards, five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards, and a Fulbright Scholarship to study health care in Japan.

She is serving a third term as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. She holds a B.S. from the University of Nebraska and a certificate in business and economics journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1976-1977.